Quotes About Redemption

Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank Thee, Savior, because Thou hast died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got angry, scolded God, were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

In Adam's Fall We sinned all.

I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.

God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.

I have trodden the winepress alone.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.

I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart, you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.

If anyone had told them that they would look back at this day while having conversations that mended the repetitive brokenness in so many lives, they wouldn't have believe it.

A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss--a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed.

It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

?ini mi se kad bi ljudi znali, koliko je za mene napor bio živeti, oprostili bi mi lakše sve zlo što sam po?inio i sve dobro što sam propustio da u?inim, i još bi im ostalo malo ose?anja da me požale.

Ja, covjek nestalna srca koji živim bez mira i radosti; gorak život o tudjem hljebu, nemirne prošlosti, pune lutanja, nesnalaženja i stradanja, nestalne, teške sadašnjosti i mra?ne budu?nosti,šiban strastima, potresen doga?ajima, i mu?en od ljudi, oboren i gažen na ulazu u život, podgrižen grijehom, i borbom proti grijehu-ja žudim svom dušom mir i molim no?as od Boga život vedar i tih da se ne kidam u sebi i ne lomim svijetom.

Bir H?ristiyana mezarl?kta bir kabri nas?l çok görebilirsin? dedi. Hem de onun günahlar?n? affetmeyecekmiÅŸim? Hayat?nda mutsuz oluÅŸu yetmiyor mu ki?.. Yukarda, hepimizin günahlar?n?n hesab?n? soracak olan, vars?n onun da günahlar?n?n hesab?n? sorsun!..

He never even felt how countless petty circumstances were fusing together to create an imperceptible but powerful stream that would carry him back into that life which he had left as a child in the slums of San Giusto in Trieste, right back into the world of ugly squalor and besetting vice from which he had run with all his strength for thirty years and which, for a long time now, he had believed was behind him.